Former Merkel rival joins race to head German leader's party
Like Spahn, the financial policy expert and social conservative Merz has complained that Merkel led the CDU too far to the left. If either a critic like Spahn or Merz gets the top job, "then Merkel's chancellorship will likely be over more quickly".

One example included photographs of a recent holiday, another was a chat about a recent Depeche Mode concert, and a third included complaints about a son-in-law. "We have also contacted law enforcement and have worked with local authorities to remove the website that displayed information from Facebook accounts", Facebook executive Guy Rosen told the publication.

It is strongly suggested that users avoid browser extensions altogether unless they are have good ratings and have been installed by many people as the review process for browser extensions leaves something to be desired. "As we continue to investigate, we will take action to secure people's accounts as appropriate", Rosen said in a statement to Deadline.

The BBC Russian Service contacted five Russian Facebook users whose private messages had been uploaded and confirmed the posts were theirs. But as you'd expect, there are also more sensitive discussions, including "intimate correspondence between two lovers", as the BBC describes it.

Independent cyber-experts have told the BBC that if rogue extensions were indeed the cause, the browsers' developers might share some responsibility for failing to vet the programs, assuming they were distributed via their marketplaces.

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